In the case of the vast number of Jewish and Christian texts from Second Temple times, the evidence that various reports of visions and revelations are grounded in the experiences of the authors or the mystical circles they represent seems indisputable. The many references to dreams, to preparations such as fasting, special diet or drink, to calendrical and other temporal matters, and to body posture, indicate familiarity with mystical techniques.111 This seems also the case with the scattered references to the visionary experiences of the Rabbis in the literature of the Tannaim and Amoraim;
